Friday, October 12, 2001
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Friday, October 12, 2001 |
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Two photo openings set for Senoia By JOHN
THOMPSON
Residents in Senoia will have a unique opportunity this weekend to see the unveiling of two photography exhibits in the city. The exhibit "Portrait of Senoia" opens Sunday at the Senoia Historical Society at the intersection of Couch and Pylant streets. The exhibit features works from nationally known photographer Gary Gruby, who just happens to call the town home. Residents will get a chance to see some of the faces that Gruby has photographed during his more than 10 years in the town. "Some of them have lived here all their lives and some may have been here just for a day," Gruby said. The 30 photos he is permanently loaning the Historical Society reflect his different development techniques. All the pictures on exhibit are archived, and he feels the historical society is a much better place for his prints than in many of his photo notebooks. "I just want to try and give a little bit back to a community that has given so much to me," he said. The exhibit is made possible through a grant from Winpak Films and opens to the public at 1 p.m. Oct 14 at the Senoia Historical Society headquarters. The exhibit runs through November. The second opening is just down the street at the Highfire Gallery, Original Art and Custom Framing, on Main Street. The gallery, will have a public reception from 2-5 p.m. Sunday to introduce new black and white images by photographer Anne Ledbetter of Smyrna, Ga. A stray dog adoption drive, including an informative lecture, will begin at 1:30. The exhibit is entitled "Gertrude: From Poverty to Prosperity; A Stray Dog Finds a Home" and will continue through Nov. 12. Gertrude the dog came to the home of photographer Anne Ledbetter a bedraggled and disheveled stray. As Ledbetter watched Gertrude transform into a house dog, she wondered how Gertrude perceived life with humans. This collection of witty images, which is presented in conjunction with Atlanta Celebrates Photography, is Ledbetter's journey to capture, on film, life from an entirely new perspective. "Highfire Gallery is excited to be the first to unleash these new creations from Anne's growing body of outstanding work, which are a new turn from what we saw from her two-year Asian excursion," said Amy Owens, owner of Highfire Gallery. "These have a twist of humor to them which adds yet another dimension to her already impressive scope of vision." Ledbetter now specializes in people, predominantly wedding and portrait photography. Her photographs have taken top honors regionally as well as internationally, with WPPI, and appear in several magazines including Sports Illustrated.
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